Altai-Sayan (Unknown) - S​ä​ngke​-​T​ū​rem Najt Mut​-​Mor​ä

Debut full-length from this killer record, conceptually exploring the regions and cultures surrounding the beautiful Altai and Sayan mountains, of southern Siberia, northern Mongolia, and northeast Kazakhstan. Honoring the traditions and ancient cultures from these sacred lands, occupied by revered and mighty people for millennia, this project does incorporate some traditional elements in its music, like the throat singing on the Interlude, and what sounds like an ikili, and uses this classic picture, of a beautiful Khanty women and her child eating raw raindeer. Overall however, Altai-Sayan presents us long tracks of epic Black Metal, with a lot Folk-ish melodies, clearly inspired in the rustic and epic melodies of the tovshuurs that serpentine through the windy mountains, from Altay to Baikal, thus really resounding with other excellent artists of prideful, Folk-ish Black Metal arts such as Eisenwinter, Bilskirnir or .. The album ends with a rather surprising, experimental Drumn n Bas